This is an online resource for Dr. Robert Schmick's English 9 students in Team Thunder at Ellsworth High School, Ellsworth, Maine

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

November 29, 2012 Lesson: Conducting an Interview

Essential Question: How do we conduct an interview?

You will be conducting an interview together with your class.
Their interviewee is a Senior classmate from Ellsworth High School.

Before you do this, you should look again ( as last night’s
homework was to read Springboard pages 56-56) at the following:

Fill-in Columns K and W in the KWL Chart:

Interviewee’s Name:________________________________________

KWL CHART

K-What I know

W-What I Want
to Know

L-What I
Learned

Based on what you already
know, either from your own knowledge of the person or from what your teacher
tells you, make a list of questions that you think might get and keep the
interview flowing ( this will be something to do with a coming of age
theme ( in high school); getting your driver’s license, our own freshmen
year, first dance, high school sports, first job…)

Remember that this is a classmate who has volunteered to help you
experience the interview process; please be appropriate. You will only have one
question.

Take notes. Include the
questions asked and answers given. Time will be given to record Q & A.
Think-Pair-Share so that you can capture quotes verbatim, while your
partner summarizes important information from the answers. Remember to ask
good follow-up questions ( identify in your notes that these are
follow-ups).

Thank the interviewee; its
difficult being interviewed by so many people.

Fill Column L in the KWL
Chart above (At least two things, if not more).

We will return to our own
classroom. In pairs share your findings from the interview. Brainstorm and
fill a sheet of paper with information from both your memory and notes:

a.Consider how the interviewee spoke, acted and
looked (record)

b.Consider the setting ( what was the room like
with two classes packed in)

c.Consider how the interview was effected by so
many interviewers and so many questions.

d.What was the significance of what the
interviewee shared?

e.What were the memorable direct and indirect
quotes of the interview?

Compete #6 Assessment piece ( Circle one
from 1-3):

1.I learned a lot about the person being
interviewed.

2.I learned some things about the person being
interviewed, but I wanted to learn more.

From the Assyrian Empire of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Iraq, which can be seen at Bowdoin College

This stellae is from Nimrud, or Kalakh of yore, in what is now Iraq. This dates from the time of Ashurnazirpal II, and it can be seem at Bowdoin College here in Maine.

This is a genuine anorak (Aleut), as it is made from seal intestine making it entirely water resistant. I saw this at the very interesting and worth-a-visit Peary-Macmillan Polar Exploration Museum at Bowdoin College in New Brunswick, ME recently ( March, 2013).

This is the mummy that I mentioned that I witnessed being unearthed at the Ramesseum in Egypt, circa 1995 ( I lived in Egypt at an earlier period---1988 and worked as a teacher in Cairo. I saw this while on summer vacation from a teaching gig in Istanbul, Turkey. It spoke to me.